Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm

aka. Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, The Brothers Grimm

Birthday

1785-01-04

Deathday

1863-09-20

Place of Birth

Hanau, Germany

Biography

German philologist, jurist, and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's law (linguistics), the co-author with his brother Wilhelm of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm and the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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